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Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable Although invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are relatively new porous hybrid coordination polymers that consist of inorganic nodes linked together by organic ligands called linkers. These crystalline materials are being tested for many applications. Environmental ...

Contamination of water with pharmaceutical substances and pesticides represents a serious ecological problem that threatens the environment and the health of people and animals. Traditional water treatment methods often fail to effectively remove these...

Electrical fields can be used to process materials at less demanding conditions, synthesize new phases and compositions. Herein, nanocrystals of CeO2 were synthetized and grown in-situ under AC and DC electrical fields. Main crystallographic properti...

Cerium dioxide is one of the oxides of rare earth elements. It has remarkable physical and chemical properties, particularly the ability to cleave many chemical bonds in hazardous and biologically active substances. This ability is related to the metho...

This study presents the results of a geochemical and LiDAR survey analysis carried out at the deserted medieval settlement and fortified manorial farm (motte-and-bailey) in Čečín, in Czechia (Western Bohemia, Plzeň-North District). Focusing on the site...

Boreal forests represent an important carbon sink and, therefore, significantly contribute to climate change mitigation. Tree-ring width series of boreal species reflect climate variation at the moment of tree-ring formation but also lagged climatic ef...

Biological invasions are a major threat to biodiversity and cause economic damage worth billions of dollars every year. Processes that drive plant invasions involve multiple steps, from introduction, establishment, survival, persistence, dispersal and ...

Most plastics are currently recycled by mechanical recycling, i.e., melting and remolding plastic products. However, as plastics contain various additives, this process leads to their interaction and subsequent undesirable properties in the end product...

Bulk metallic glasses lack long-range order characteristics of their counterpart crystalline alloys. The unique atomic ordering makes metallic glasses very attractive for structural applications due to their large elastic strain, high strength, and har...